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Mark Clay

@mrclayox.bsky.social

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Husband. Father. Charity Worker. Volunteer. Music and literature lover. Cat dad. Meta refugee. Award-winning artist exploring memory, experience & mutability, especially in landscape; combining the systematic & the poetic. Oxford, UK.

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Mark Clay @mrclayox.bsky.social · 1d

Are there any recruitment consultants out there who don't spend their entire day spamming LinkedIn?

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Keir Starmer putting supporting the rights of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans to come to Birmingham is a strange hill to die on

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans make 1980s Millwall supporters look mild, and are even more racist than Russian football hooligans

They have a reputation for extreme racism and violence

Maccabi Tel Aviv FC fans will not be able to buy tickets to Aston Villa match in Birmingham

The Tel Aviv side won't sell their supporters any tickets - irrespective of whether the current ban on attendance is overturned or not.

news.sky.com

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Mark Clay @mrclayox.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer has to go. He's reached Boris Johnson levels of rock bottom now.

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Mark Clay @mrclayox.bsky.social · 2d

Boy is he confused.

Mark Clay @mrclayox.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly right. I do believe that only Truss and Johnson were worse PMs than Starmer. He is a void, a mannequin, an unprincipled vacuum.

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Mark Clay @mrclayox.bsky.social · 2d

How can you bring an already disreputable party into a disrepute?

Mark Clay @mrclayox.bsky.social · 4d

Posting in support of democracy in the USA and wherever it is under threat.
#NoKings

Mark Clay @mrclayox.bsky.social · 7d

Here comes the work experience boy.

Mark Clay @mrclayox.bsky.social · 7d

What took them so long?

Mark Clay @mrclayox.bsky.social · 7d

If you lay down with a dog, you wake up with fleas.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 9d

Nigel Farage has finally admitted to it.

But now there's lots more questions especially considering Rupert Lowes intervention....

leftfootforward.org/2025/10/nige...

Nigel Farage finally admits to knowing Nathan Gill after senior Reform figure repeatedly claimed he didn’t

Farage has admitted he knew Gill for 'a very long time' but claims he didn't know anything about his pro-Russia activities...

leftfootforward.org

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 9d

'Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire

www.mirror.co.uk

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12d

It's time for the rich to pay.

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Mark Clay @mrclayox.bsky.social · 11d

Drawings 67 and 68 of "A Never-Ending Way (Vol. 3)" are complete. This little section of the Hinksey Heights Nature Trail (Oxford, UK) is quite sketchy: I love the sense of exploration and remoteness it offers, as well as the challenge of capturing it on paper.

#drawing
#landscapedrawing

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20d

“Farage “broke Britain" with Brexit and is now, outrageously, capitalising on the vast damage he caused”

Article argues there’s no need to mention Reform’s racism as the Brexit shitshow is failure enough.
But that had its roots in racism too. So let’s do both.
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...

Yet it's a potentially fruitful line of argument.
Many of the UK's current problems stem from something most of us would prefer not to dwell on - Brexit. Depressed investment, low productivity, stagnant economic growth and living standards, the strain on the public finances and thus public services, food prices, the "Boriswave" of more than 2 million (legal) immigrants, increased red tape and border hassles for businesses, farmers and travellers... all can be traced back, to a greater or lesser extent, to 2016 and the EU Referendum. And who, as he reminds us again now, spent 30 years of his life campaigning for Britain to leave the EU? Farage.
It is he, Farage, who 'broke Britain' with Brexit and is now capitalising on the vast damage he caused

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20d

In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least £7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

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Mark Clay @mrclayox.bsky.social · 21d

Ketchup will be flying in the Oval Office today.

Mark Clay @mrclayox.bsky.social · 21d

One slice of #Marmite on toast is never enough, is it?

A photo of Cookie Monster from Sesame Street in the middle of devouring a cookie.

Mark Clay @mrclayox.bsky.social · 23d

One from the #cartoon #archive.

#drawing
#sketchbook

A colour pencil drawing of a cottage loaf sitting on a plate. The loaf is wearing a pink cardigan, ornate glasses and has a silver hair perm on the top. The title of the drawing reads "Nan Bread".

Mark Clay @mrclayox.bsky.social · 23d

A stark warning about the catastrophic decline in arts opportunities for children in the UK.

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Children starved of art lose their creative spark – and t...

You can’t buy a crayon with the amount spent on arts education in some schools – leaving pupils without the skills for tomorrow’s jobs

observer.co.uk

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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 23d

There is very strong public support for a UK-EU Youth Mobility Scheme, so it would be a vote winner as well as being a good thing on its own merits.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Two-thirds of voters ‘want young Britons to be able to live and work in Europe’

A majority in all constituencies in Britain support such a scheme, the poll of almost 15,000 voters found

www.independent.co.uk

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Mark Clay @mrclayox.bsky.social · 23d

A lot of British people would fail these requirements.

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 24d

Nigel Farage's attendance record as an MEP was 748 out of 751, yet he turned up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian disinformation. Now one of his MEPs has admitted taking bribes to spread Russian propaganda. Why is this not all over the media?

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Mark Clay @mrclayox.bsky.social · 24d

Tim Nice But Fascist.

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Mark Clay @mrclayox.bsky.social · 24d

I'm at last able to resume work on Volume 3 of "A Never-Ending Way". Drawings 65 and 66 are now complete. The Hinksey Heights Nature Trail, near Oxford, is quite indistinct at this point.

I've been happily absorbed for many an hour with this pair, especially working on the dense foliage.
#drawing